valetudinarianism

[ val-i-tood-n-air-ee-uh-niz-uhm, -tyood- ]

noun

1. the state, condition, or habits of a valetudinarian.

Word History and Origins

Origin of valetudinarianism¹

First recorded in 1830–40; valetudinarian + -ism

Example Sentences

He was a little disposed towards valetudinarianism, and was apt to imagine himself visited by divers diseases.

From Project Gutenberg

From the foregoing it is clear that valetudinarianism, if it prove anything, proves not that it renders intellectual effort impossible, but that it serves as a discipline for the soul.

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Well, I ought to be glad, after ten years of the worst training on earth—valetudinarianism—that I can still be troubled by a duty.

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He scorned the sickliness of the Rousseau school as, in spite of his constitutional melancholy, he scorned valetudinarianism whether of the bodily or the spiritual order.

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He was tormented by presentiments of misfortune; he indulged a kind of romantic valetudinarianism.

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